Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergeant Charles Frederick Jackson, recently court-martialed for watering the beer of officers at the Tower of London whose duty is to keep the Crown Jewels safe (TIME, Aug. 15), was sentenced last fortnight for his unique and, in Britain, sensational crime...
Psychology Professor Knight Dunlap, of the University of California at Los Angeles, last week made a proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
...Unless someone dares to violate such laws and leads others to disregard them, they are not repealed, block progress. Sample bad laws: Prohibition, antigambling, anti-birth control. Professor Dunlap's list of history's lawless heroes: Jesus Christ, Margaret Sanger, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, George Washington (crime: treason against Britain), several other unnamed U. S. Presidents...
Pretty bad for a Carroll were the proceedings in South Paris court where twelve stern-eyed Mainemen had heard young Paul Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the murder of 63-year-old Dr. James Littlefield, accuse Father Carroll of the crime (TIME, Aug. 15). Father Carroll flatly denied his guilt. Confronted on the stand with the fact that his alibi (serving a summons) covered not the night of the crime but the night before, Francis Carroll stuttered, reddened, said he had mixed his dates...
...restore ink or pencil marks which have been erased. Two years ago, M. Edwin O'Neill of the Crime Laboratory discovered how to restore ordinary ink erasures, published his findings. Just before the Crime Seminar opened he had found the chemical talisman for red and green inks...